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Behind Silicon Valley and the GOP’s campaign to ban state AI laws

Inside the effort to de-democratize AI

“This amendment is the direct result of a campaign by Google, Meta, OpenAI, and venture capitalists like Andreessen Horowitz—and their dozens of trade associations—to bulldoze through the public's safety in order to continue to make risky bets on a precarious and potentially hazardous technology,” Gordon says. And yet, as Gordon puts it, “if this amendment passes, not a single state in America could protect people from AI systems that unfairly deny their medical care, keep their nursing homes understaffed, revoke their unemployment benefits, or inflate their rent.” It’s part of what she says is a “cynical campaign” the tech industry is waging “to override the will of the public.” A lot of these ideas can be traced back to Congressional committee hearings held by Gutherie and Ted Cruz in recent months, which were attended by Altman, former Google chief Eric Schmidt, Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and others.

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